About a month back I took a brief patrol around a section of my deer ranch and spotted two of them right from the truck, one of them stood still and allowed me to shakily snap a few hurried pictures, just thought you might enjoy them..
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Where there's Deer Cougars are making meals of them.
Thanks for posting the pictures.

That was my first thought and actually got worried, but they seemed to be just passing by, I haven't seen their tracks in any of our water holes. I believe it is part of a healthy environment be able to see predators as long as they are in controlled numbers, and as we don't have coyotes at all those are actually the first predators I have seen in the ranch.

Looks like a great place! I enjoyed all of your photos.

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See you in January!

Cool pics. Thanks for sharing

From all the greenery it looks like you've had a good year in Sonora.

I agree that an appropriate population of predators is part of a healthy environment. We have practically no predators in Central Texas so our deer are mostly the size of big rabbits.